Jobs / Management and business operations / 11-9179.02
Spa Managers
Plan, direct, or coordinate activities of a spa facility. Coordinate programs, schedule and direct staff, and oversee financial activities.
- US jobs
- 10,450 (SOC 11-9179 group, "Personal Service Managers, All Other")
- Median wage
- $69,770 a year
- Job family
- Management and business operations
Can agents do the work of spa managers?
We read the evidence at the level of the job family, Management and business operations:
- Task levelPartialOnly adjacent evidence. On TheAgentCompany, which gives agents workplace tasks inside a simulated software company, the best agent resolves 42.9% of tasks (a November 2025 result). No task-level benchmark in our collection maps directly to management or business operations.
- Project levelPartialMixed. OpenAI reports that GPT-5.5's GDPval deliverables won or tied against professionals' work in 84.9% of comparisons, and the best agent passes 73.5% of APEX-Agents tasks on the first try. Running a business is weaker: on Vending-Bench 2 the best model ends a simulated year with $15,515, about a quarter of Andon Labs' estimate for a good strategy.
Benchmarks for the job family
These cover work in management and business operations, not always this occupation's tasks.
- 1846 EloClaude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Default Fallback) · 23 Sep 2026Unrated
- 42.9%TTE-MatrixAgent + DeepSeek-V3.2 · 10 Nov 2025Emerging
Typical tasks
From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.
- Respond to customer inquiries or complaints.
- Perform accounting duties, such as recording daily cash flow, preparing bank deposits, or generating financial statements.
- Coordinate facility schedules to maximize usage and efficiency.
- Assess employee performance and suggest ways to improve work.
- Monitor operations to ensure compliance with applicable health, safety, or hygiene standards.
- Verify staff credentials, such as educational and certification requirements.
- Check spa equipment to ensure proper functioning.
- Establish spa budgets and financial goals.
- Recruit, interview, or hire employees.
- Develop staff service or retail goals and guide staff in goal achievement.
- Maintain client databases.
- Schedule staff or supervise scheduling.
Other job titles for this occupation (11)
Guest Experience Director · Massage Department Manager · Spa Director · Spa Operation Manager · Spa Operations Manager (Spa Ops Manager) · Spa Supervisor · Day Spa Manager · Health Spa Manager · Medical Spa Manager · Spa Coordinator · Wellness Spa Manager